On Tuesday, the youth was in Juvenile Hall facing murder
charges, police spokesman Sgt. Kelan Poorman said. The Temecula
teenager was visiting his sister Antonia, Nava's wife, at the time
of the shooting, Poorman said. He was arrested after police
interviewed him at the Oceanside Police Station shortly after
Nava's death. The youth's name was not released.

Police on Tuesday released few new details in the slaying. The
gun, Poorman said, was Nava's. The youth apparently is the only
witness to the shooting, and detectives aren't saying what he told
them.

Police previously said Nava worked at a gas station, but Poorman
said Tuesday he was unemployed.

Nava's wife, also interviewed by police, had just stepped
outside the apartment when the shooting occurred, Poorman said.
Police did not release her name.

On Tuesday afternoon, no one was home at the first floor unit in
the Camino Colony Apartments, a community with about six buildings
just north of Oceanside Boulevard.

Next-door neighbor Osbaldo Nosqueta said Nava and Antonia
appeared to have lived a happy, quiet life with their two young
children, a baby boy and a 3- or 4-year-old girl. Nosqueta said the
family had moved in about four months ago, but he knew Nava as an
easygoing, kind man.

He said he had never seen Antonia Nava's teenage brother.
Nosqueta was not home the night of the shooting, which was reported
about 9:20 p.m. Sunday.

Nava was treated by Oceanside Fire Department personnel, but he
died as he was being taken to the hospital. A gunshot wound to the
neck proved fatal, according to the medical examiner's office.

Apartment maintenance supervisor Abel Nieves said Nava's widow
began moving out of the apartment Tuesday.

"She told me she was sorry that she couldn't give her 30-day
notice," he said. "She said she wanted to find another apartment
because she didn't want to stay there anymore."

Nieves said he was rattled by the killing, partly because the
complex is usually pleasant, and partly because he liked Nava. The
tenant always chatted pleasantly to him and liked to play with his
two children in the complex's swimming pool, Nieves said.

"He was a real nice guy, and his wife is real nice," Nieves
said. "I don't know why this tragedy happened to them."